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Ravi Shankar (born 1975) is an Indian American poet, translator and literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong. He is the founding editor and Executive Director of the international online journal of the arts, (Drunken Boat ), one of the world's oldest online journals of the arts (founded in 1999) He has published and edited a total of ten books of poetry, including 'Deepening Groove' for which he won the 2010 National Poetry Review Prize and a collection of translations of Andal, the 8th century Tamil poet/saint, published by Zubaan Books in India in 2015 and distributed by University of Chicago Press in the US Market. 〔http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo22442105.html〕 He has won a Pushcart Prize, been nominated for a Poets' Prize and served as a judge for numerous poetry related competitions. He has also appeared on NPR, the BBC, the Jim Lehrer News Hour and in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Financial Times. He has been called "one of America's finest younger poets" by Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen. He also co-edited W.W. Norton's "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond" called "a beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. He is featured on the Poetry Foundation,〔http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ravi-shankar〕 and the Academy of American Poets website 〔http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/ravi-shankar〕 where you can find and read poems of his. ==Career== Shankar received his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia where he worked with Gregory Orr, and his Master's degree in poetry from Columbia University's School of the Arts, where he studied with Lucie Brock-Broido and Richard Howard.〔Ram Devineni. http://jacketmagazine.com/16/dev-iv-shank.html Riding the Boat. (March 2002). Accessed 2006-12-13.〕 He has contributed to the ''New York Times'' and the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'', and is currently Chairman of the (Connecticut Young Writers Trust. )〔(Ravi Shankar on Ravi Shankar ) The New York Times. (December 2012).〕〔http://chronicle.com/blogs/arts/mondays-poem-breast-feeding-at-the-blue-mosque-by-ravi-shankar/29274 Chronicle of Higher Education〕 His first book, ''Instrumentality'', was published in 2004, and was a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He co-wrote ''Wanton Textiles'' in 2006 with Reb Livingston, selections of which were published in ''Fringe Magazine'' and ''Beltway Poetry Quarterly''.〔Ravi Shankar and Reb Livingston, (''Wanton Textiles''. ) Fringe, (March 2006), Issue 2. Accessed 2007-03-09.〕〔Reb Livingston, from (''Wanton Textiles''. ) Beltway Poetry Quarterly, (Winter 2007), Vol 8, No 1. Accessed 2007-03-09.〕 His chapbook ''Voluptuous Bristle'', was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010. His chapbook "Seamless Matter" was published by Rain Taxi Books in 2011. Shankar's poetry has been published in such places as ''The Paris Review'', ''The Massachusetts Review'',〔 Ravi Shankar, ''Return to Mumbai''. (Massachusetts Review, ) (Summer 1999), vol.40, no.2. Accessed 2006-12-13.〕 ''The Cortland Review'',〔Ravi Shankar, (''Carousel''. ) Cortland Review, (November 2003), Issue 24. Accessed 2006-12-15.〕 (Review'', )〔Ravi Shankar, ''Ridiculing Fascism''. (Review''. ) Fall Journal, Issue No.1 (October 2013)〕 and ''The New Hampshire Review''.〔Ravi Shankar, (''Dark''. ) New Hampshire Review, (Summer 2005), Vol 1, no.1. Accessed 2006-12-13.〕 He co-edited an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian poetry, along with poets Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, published by W.W. Norton in 2008. He has contributed to the Poetry Society of America's "Q-and-A on American Poetry",〔() (Summer 2010), Accessed 2006-12-13.〕 and has also written many reviews and works of creative nonfiction. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ravi Shankar (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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